Louis Poinsot
Louis Poinsot was a French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be resolved into a single force and a couple.
Background
- Born in
- Paris
- Educated at
- École Nationale des Ponts et ChausséesÉcole polytechniqueLycée Louis-le-Grand
- Awards
- 🏆 72 names on the Eiffel Tower🏆 Officer of the Legion of Honour🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Gaston Lespiault
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1777
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Birth1859
Died
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